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Home Nature-Study Course. 



LESSON XXXI. 



THE DIFFERENT BREEDS OF GOATS. 



Purpose. — To arouse the pupil's interest in the different varieties of 

 goats and their special uses to man. 



This lesson should begin with the study of whatever goats are near at 

 hand. It should be continued through talks by the teacher or reading on 

 the part of the pupils. There is a very valuable account of both Milch 

 and Angora goats in the Twenty-first Annual Report of the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, 1904, United States Department of Agriculture. 

 There are many illustrations given in this report and much interesting 

 and valuable information. The pupils should also become interested 

 in the accounts of our native wild goats of the Rocky Mountains for 

 which references are given. Stories in the natural histories of the Ibex 

 and Chamois will prove most interesting reading. 



Facts for teachers. — Our Rocky Mountain goat is the special prize of hunters 

 but still holds its own in the high mountains of the Rocky and Cascade ranges. 

 Both sexes have slender black horns and white hair, black feet, eyes and nose. 

 Owen Wister says of this animal : " He's white, all white, and shaggy, and twice 

 as large as any goat you ever saw. His white hair hangs long all over him, like 

 a Spitz dog's or an Angora cat's ; and against its shaggy white mass the black- 

 ness of his hoofs, and horns, and nose looks particularly black. His legs are 



thick, his neck is thick, everything about him 

 is thick, save only his thin black horns. 

 They're generally about six (often more 

 than nine) inches long, they spread very 



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Thompson, Twenty-first Annual Report Bureauof Animal Industry U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Tlie Zardibi milch goat of Egypt. 



